Eliot Katz is the author of Unlocking the Exits (Coffee House Press, 1999); Les voleurs au travail (Thieves at Work) (Paris: Messidor Press, 1992, in French translation) and Space and Other Poems for Love, Laughs, and Social Transformation (Northern Lights, 1990). He is also a coeditor of Poems for the Nation (Seven Stories Press, 2000), a collection of contemporary political poems compiled by the late poet Allen Ginsberg. A cofounder and former coeditor of Long Shot literary magazine, Katz's poems are included in the anthologies: Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; Blue Stones and Salt Hay: An Anthology of Contemporary New Jersey Poets; Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American, Bum Rush the Page, Nada Poems, and In Defense of Mumia. He is coeditor of a bilingual anthology published in France in 1995, entitled Changing America: Contemporary U.S. Poems of Protest, 1980-1995. Called "Another classic New Jersey bard" by Allen Ginsberg, Katz worked for many years as a housing advocate for Central New Jersey homeless families. He currently lives in New York City. & Andy Clausen was born Andre Laloux in a Belgian bomb shelter in 1943. He was raised in Oakland, California. USA. He graduated from Bishop O'Dowd High School in 1961 and attended six colleges. He began trying to be a "beat" poet in 1965 after reading Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso et al. He has traveled and read his poetry all over North America and the world (New York, California, Alaska, Texas, Prague, Kathmandu, Amsterdam etc.). He has maintained a driven intrepid lifestyle and aspired to be a champion of the underdog. His chief books have been: The Iron Curtain of Love, Without Doubt, and his selected verse of 30 years, 40th Century Man. Allen Ginsberg not only called him the "Future of American Poetry" but in the introduction to Without Doubt, said he would take a chance on a "President Clausen." Clausen has taught at Naropa Institute and given readings and lectures at many universities. He has worked for poetry in the schools agencies in California, New Jersey, Colorado and New York. He is now a stone mason, troubadour, and a freelance teacher of creative writing under the auspices of Teachers & Writers in the NYC school system. He is presently working on memoirs of his friendship and adventures with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and many others of the Beat Generation. In 1982 he was voted the most exciting poet at the Kerouac Conference in Boulder, Colorado.